Bed-cord tightener



NITEI) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABSOLUM B. STROUP, OF VALDRON, INDIANA.

BED-CORD TIGHTENER.

l Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,844, dated April 10, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABSOLUM B. STRoUr, of Waldron, in the county ofShelby and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bed-Cord Tighteners, which I have described in thefollowing specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawingswith sufficient clearness to enable others of competent skill t0 makeand use my invention.

My invention consists in the arrangements and combination of partshereinafter described, by which I am enabled to cord any ordinarybedstead with great facility and draw the cord as tight as may bedesired as herein more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, is a top view showing theprincipal parts and to some extent the nature of my invention. Fig. 2 isa vertical section showing near the top a ratchet wheel near the bottomhooks, placed so as to make the rows around zigzag. Fig. 3 is a springthat catches in the ratchet wheel. Fig. 4 is a plate inserted inside ofa tube or flange with a square hole for a wrench to operate in.

In the center of Fig. l, is plate A, with any required number of holesas marked X, to agree with the number of pins in the bedstead, the holesmarked X, are made long and extending nearer the outer edge of plate Aat each end than in the center, so that the cord may be separated whereit passes over plate A, and thus preventing the fibers being caughtunder other cords while being tightened. serted in the lower end of tubeC, so that a wrench may lit in square holes D, and thus turn tube C, andthat operates the ratchet wheel E, and tightens the cord.

At Fig. 2 is seen tube C, extending through ratchet wheel E, just equalto the thickness of plate A, tube C, may extend any desired distancedownward so as to give room for the cord to Wind upon it. The lit- PlateB, is in.

tle dots at or near the lower end of tube C,

represent the ends of hooks F, as shown at Fig. 5, there being anyrequirednumber to agree with any number of holes that may be in plate A,one hook for each hole. There are four notches in the lower end of thetube C, marked g, g, g, g. These are for the purpose of turning tube C,in the absence of a wrench. Spring H is firmly fastened (by the largeend) to the under side of plate A, so that the pointed end may operateon rachet wheel, E, and hold it rm when turned.

Having thus fully described my invention, I shall now describe themanner of its operation. Having an ordinary bedstead with pins for thecord as represented at Fig. l I tie one end of the cord to one of thepins then pass the cord double through one of the holes in plate A, andplace it then over hook F, then after passing the cord around two pinsin the bed rail, pass the cord double through the next hole in plate A,the cord being hooked on and not drawn through from end to endA eachtime it is placed over the pins.

Tube C, extends above ratchet wheel E so that ratchet wheel E is drawntight up against plate A, and spring H, being fastened to plate A,catches ratchet wheel E, when I turn tube C by any wrench fitting squarehole D or notches g, g, g, g, as shown at Figs. 2 and 4. ,Small dots atthe lower end of tube C, are the hooks F, as represented at Fig. 5, overwhich the cord passes.

Having thus fully described my invention, and the manner of itsoperation I claim- The combination and arrangement of the plates A, andB, tube C, wheel E, hooks F, spring H, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

A. B. STROUP. fitnesses L. HowLAND, S. H. YocUM.

